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No, inventions that are never produced have no value and do not need protection. For most things prototypes are cheap and production is expensive. The patent system already gives you a provisional year if you're not quite ready but want to stake a claim.


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From my perspective it is you that is the extremist. Patent office requires perpetual motion machines to come with a prototype, why not everything else as well.


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Bluff and bluster.




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